Laptops market growing at great pace in India

COIMBATORE: Laptops market has been growing at a great pace in India, and its market share would be about 35-40 per cent in the next three years, a top offical of HCL Infosystems said.

Addressing a press meet here today, on the eve of a multibrand laptops showroom inauguration, Country Head (Sales and Marketing) L Ramprasad said, Toshiba laptops had three to four per cent market share now and the company has evolved strategies to improve it.

Attributing low and decreasing duty structure for the boost in sales of laptops, he said laptops would be more affordable in the years to come.

HCL Infosystems, marketing partner of Toshiba Mobile Computing, has opened about 75 showrooms across the country in the past nine months, and it would touch 150 mark by March next.

With 28 models, in entry and hi-end levels, Toshiba laptop could attract new customers into its fold, and HCL has registered 150 per cent growth on laptops, Ramprasad said.

Surprisngly about 70 per cent of the laptop sales was through hi-end models in the country, he said.

Laptops could not take away or wipe out the Desktop PCs from the market, as both were designed for different customers.